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Posted by John Boyd on 14:51:32 04/30/06
In Reply to: TAS Fifth Anual Birdathon - 2006 posted by Paul Bithorn
Nancy Freedman and I were joined by eagle-eyed Alex Harper this year. It made a difference. Our Kingboyds team racked up 127 species last weekend. We started on Friday (the 21st) at 5:45pm, birding Enchanted Forest and other areas in NE Miami-Dade. The next morning, we assembled at FIU to start our run west out the Tamiami Trail. We stopped at several locations along the trail reaching Marco Island around noon.
Marco was somewhat disappointing (we didn't even get godwits). We then headed back east through Hendry county, reaching the Miami Canal Barn Owls at about 5:15. We found some flooded fields as we headed toward US-27 which provided our last bird of the day (Long-billed Dowitcher). We were still searching the fields for more when time ran out at 5:45.
Here's the list:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Swan Goose (aka Chinese Goose)
Muscovy Duck
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Red Junglefowl
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis (25)
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite
Snail Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Purple Swamphen
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs (50)
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Monk Parakeet
Red-masked Parakeet
White-eyed Parakeet (75)
White-winged Parakeet
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Barn-Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (100)
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Myna
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (125)
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
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